Word: ionesco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lifelong search for joy and truth, it is also a spectacular that includes music by Richard Peaslee (Marat/Sade), elements of choreography by Julie Arenal (Hair), monumental sets by William Pitkin and a cast of 35, including James Patterson, Ruth Ford, William Prince and Virginia Kiser. Ionesco is in residence to give Director Arthur Storch the benefit of his own interpretation...
RHINOCEROS, an Ionesco parable about a man's isolation, will be performed by A Contemporary Theater, Seattle, Wash. (July 22-Aug. 2). Robert Loper will brave it out as Berenger, the man who manages to resist conformity, Arne Zaslove will direct, and film projections will take the place of props to provide the scenery...
...sound accords well with Vian's own life-style. A cardiac case from childhood, Vian decided to ignore his illness with a vengeance. He was a jazz musician, a composer, an engineer, an actor and a playwright as well as a novelist. Friend of writers like Sartre and Ionesco, habitué of the caves of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Vian was generally considered the prince of the enfants terribles of French existentialism. His death in 1959 at the age of 38 was sudden, but it could hardly be called unexpected. While he was alive, the only...
...Ionesco's Maid to Marry shares the second act with Apple Bit, and director Mary King Austin chose just the right juxtaposition. Its eminently civilized lady and gentleman are quite absurd. They sit on a 1950's park bench and vacillate between violently tearing up the Times and making profound comments on professions, future, past, ungrateful children. Not a wild west thriller by any means. Still, the patter's amusing...
...Chairs & The Lesson--Two Ionesco one-acters, one sad and one funny. At WHEELOCK THEATRE, 180 The Riverway...